Come What May
A sweet snowstorm memory from our younger days is of one night after we had the six children tucked in bed, we snuck out for a walk in the snow under the moon. The silence of snow falling from the sky and hitting the ground is powerful and calming.
As the snow poured from the sky this week I told my husband, "We don't know how many snow walks we have left in us. Let's go!" The wind was blowing and snow hitting our faces as we made our way across our deck. Laughing, I said, "Okay, maybe that was far enough. We don't need to break anything and it's freezing." But we ventured on and made a memory. He wanted to send me down the hill on a sled, but I declined the galant offer.
This storm, name "Blair" ended by bringing our area mostly ice and three days without power. Neither my husband, nor I had ever experienced going more than 4 hours without power. It made us appreciate a lot of things I rarely consider. On Day 3 I said to him, "We are so spoiled."
Hour by hour, I held on with positive expectancy that it wouldn't actually take that many days and we wouldn't have to empty our 3 refrigerator freezers. So much more devastating are the fires in California right now. While some people are praying evacuation from their homes won't be necessary, others are praying for the winds to cease and the rains to come and rescue their property.
We should pray for them as well.
Come what may, and life will bring storms, we hold to God's promises and remember how great his faithfulness has been to generation after generation.
Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23
Today's song is lengthy and lyrically repetitive, but what I've gotten lost in as I've listened twice is the joy in the singers faces and the power in the testimony of these words.
With faith we can say, come what may..."Great is Your faithfulness to me....I put my faith in Jesus, my anchor to the ground! "
The Song
"Promises" Maverick City
